HAPPY 10 MONTHS BEEE!!!

:D:D I brought Leila to a trip up to the sky on our 10 month anniversary.. My friend Josh's a pilot so he offered to bring us up.. Here's the plane, on a lazy saturday morning at seletar runway:

It's a cessna, bravo oscar quebec.

We were waiting around the runway while Josh was running checks on the plane before flight..

Bee bee was being generally very happy.. :P

Josh checking his plane..

Bee was NOT checking the plane :P

After awhile, we were ready to fly! Everyone had headsets so we could hear each other talk in the sky as it would be really noisy..

Josh doing some final checks..

Ready to go!

Take off!!

The view was damn nice up there la! That was seletar resort or something..

Everything looks so tiny up here!

Silly bee was grinning most of the way :P

So was I..

Oo I made Josh find bee's house.. Heh and we found it! I think I might have a shot of woodlands interchange too, it's super tiny la. We were just there just the day before..

EDIT: here it is! Causeway point, all the way at the bottom:

With the bus interchange and mrt station and all.. So small!

This is Malaysia..

After landing we went to Jalan Kayu for prata, then we went to Yishun to look for guinea pigs. On the way we tried to look like one.. Leila started it, she insists I look like a guinea pig -.-

After reaching there we didn't want to go back there again as it's too out of the way so we bought one. Meet beh tay/piggy/pigpig/porky/pokpok:

Look like meh. -.-

Piggy's a brat la. He loves running around my room and finding spots where I can't reach him. Can't wait for him to grow big and fat and lazy. :P Bee bee and I love him, and mommy loves him too! He fell asleep in my mom's hands just now. So cute :P He's not in the red pail anymore cos he found a way to climb out of it. He's damn naughty la. So he's temporarily in my mesh dustbin now. It looks nice but it's a little too small for him. Got Leila's old cage, will clean it up tomorrow and put him in his new and bigger home. And I think we've spoilt him already, he keeps wheeking for my attention now, even as I type this, and when I go over to pet him he will purr and be a happy little brat. Haha he's such a cute critter.

Hope you enjoyed our 10 months bee! I enjoyed it a lot! :D May we go a long long long long way together! *hugsss* Love you bee bee! *muackssss*

Absinthe's 1st gig vids

Heh.

Oh fuck the vids are out

I wanna post all but that will flood the page.. I'll post this one cos it has a decent solo by me :D But I was not in the camera's focus. Oh well.



And the same song by another band, on the same day.



Enjoy!

HAI SHAI!

Hey aaron, I was quite surprised + touched that you actually read my blog! Haha I didn't think you would read it's quite boring usually.. Anyway to whoever who reads my blog secretly, SHOW YOURSELVES! Tag or smth la lemme know you're around. For that I'll move my tagboard all the way to the top so everyone can spam it :D And I'll remove the old about me portion, cos who I am, are in my friends, and you guys will take the limelight in my blog. :D

Siala

1 week of chionging project and rushing around for the (horrible) youth park gig I didn't notice I had 11 unread blog posts! So sorry I can't comment or reply anyone of you IRL (whatever you guys posted is almost what you smsed/msned me) Sorry bee, sorry fi, sorry wan, sorry jason, sorry everybody! I am super busy with school, was super busy with band and there is just a lot of things on my mind right now, about my future. A bit tired to explain now but it's somewhere along the lines of quit school, find job and take guitar lessons. I want to be a musician. Guitarist or bassist or teacher or whatever the fuck. It's my dream and I will chase it no matter what.

Dear Jason (again)

I've been holding this back, but I think you need to hear this now.

Me and my friends have been discussing this, about your plight in life, and we've all came to a common conclusion. You are gifted in drums, and music in general. Make use of it. You should know that there's nothing else you could do better but to drum. You have been searching for the answer all along but the answer has been in front of you all these while. You have been asking from God to give you a sign, help you out, this and that, but He has already given you the answer, and all you need to succeed; your 2 legs and 2 arms. You have an incredible skill for drums, make good use of it.

How you might ask? Take lessons. Go learn the theory. I know it's spending more money now, but in the long run it would well be worth it. Brandon teaches. Go learn from him. What can you do with this extra knowledge? You will be certified to teach. This is 1 source of income. You can be a sessionist. Play for bands, play for artistes. You have the skill, coupled with the paper no one can deny you. Bong, is Singapore's most renowned bass player. He toured with Sun Yan Zi for 3 years. He teaches at Yamaha in the day. He plays for different bands at various locations every night. He earns $10k a month. Not saying you NEED to earn that kind of money, but hey, half of that amount isn't too bad. A quarter of that isn't too shabby either. In the band, you are the most talented musician. You can drum, you can sing, you can play the guitar. And yet I'm the only one that seems to be pursuing this future. The answer is right in front of you. Just forget about all your reasons and excuses and go for it.

gah

Haven't put anything here for some time. I usually only post when I wanna bitch about something.. Oh yea I AM going to bitch about something! My fucking physics paper is today, and guess what, I still dunno what the fuck is going on! Hoho.. I'm so screwed.. But oh well, it's my last paper, I just hope I get a D for this shit. I don't wanna take it again. At least I know more than last sem, if that makes things any better..

Dear Jason

I don't see why you should be pissed, sad, or disappointed. Firstly, no one planned anything for sunday. Yes, I know sunday is band day, but nobody planned anything, and nothing was on. So we went on our merry ways. Fi was hanging out with me not as a band but as my best friend, together with me and Leila. I don't see any wrong with that. Pardon me for being harsh, but I don't see why you should demand to be invited.

A fool who's contacted only when needed you say? What can we do when always, on the day itself, you ask, "Hey what are you guys doing today? Don't mind I tag along?" How about suggesting, or planning, an outing or a meet up? At least the day before? I'm sure you have in the past, and they all worked out well didn't they? I think it's very fair to say that we thought you were busy because you didn't contact us regarding meeting up on sunday for the whole WEEK. I thought Wan was busy too. I thought Is was busy too. Cos neither of them contacted me. Fi contacted me on friday. If you're gonna ask why didn't I ask the rest of you guys along, what's wrong with me spending precious time with my best friend? I don't get to talk to him much when we're out as a band anyway, and we are always out as a band. That being said, I actually don't get to talk to him much AT ALL. We've always been putting the band as priority. So why can't we have just 1 sunday to ourselves, when we assumed everyone wasn't free?

Seriously, I didn't even pick on the fact that you completely forgot about my new year party and went to Aaron's instead, when I asked you first. So I don't see why you should be so upset about today's incident.

Playing loudly without playing loudly

Today I decided to prototype my silent jamming model. I brought the mixer up to my room, and straightaway hooked my amp to it, via line out. It sounded, like ASS. Lots of superhigh frequencies I don't want. Ok, I thought my amp was screwing with me, so I hooked my pedalboard straight to the mixer. Still, like ASS. The kind that will make fi get a migraine.

I knew that every channel on the mixer has gain, up to like 54 dB gain on this one, so I thought, why not just play my amp at a really low volume, and mic it up with super gain? So I tried that, I miced up my amp from inside the cabinet, and it sounded real good. It was my sound, at long bloody last. But damn it, it was picking up the sound of my electric guitar as well. The gain of the mic was too high. I tried cutting frequencies but it will cut the tone of my sound too. That didn't work as well, so I thought, why not I just stuff the back of the cabinet with a pillow? That would definately cut the sound of everything outside the cab.

Then, IT HIT ME. Why not I just stuff EVERY DAMN THING with pillows. I can bring up the volume of the amp, and cut the mic gain, in case of any other external noise I will pick up, and to have a little more headroom. And I did. Walla:

That weird piece of furniture under my amp head is yes, my speaker cabinet. And shit, at volumes where my neighbours used to be able hear, is now just confined to a radius of 1m around the amp. It's THAT SILENT. And it sounds bloody good.

http://sanxp.ath.cx:81/silent.mp3 Hear for yourself.

Bear in mind that whatever I was playing could not be heard outside of my room.

EDIT: Fiddled around with the EQ, http://sanxp.ath.cx:81/anyhow.mp3

Everytime I cut something, I rid of something I don't want, but something I want gets cut away as well. Irritating. Fi you gotta teach me how to use a mixer -.-

iPod tools for the mac!

Thought I would share some apps here. If you need to transfer songs to and from your iPod WITHOUT iTunes, there's a handy program called YamiPod. Only problem is that it doesn't work with an iPhone, so there is PodWorks. Problem is that you can't transfer music TO your iPod/iPhone with this one, only from. It does download songs straight into iTunes nicely with all the metadata though. There's an app called Senuti that does the same thing as PodWorks but without iPhone support. So it's PodWorks for me.

W-T-F

This is my favourite song from Muse. Check out the second solo. It's mad.

Guess what came in the mail today?

Hehe.

Nice and fresh!

In case you're wondering, this is why I'm getting a new laptop. Sent it in to iShop, iShop took a long time cos there was no stock for the LCD, called and screwed Apple directly. Being Apple, they offered to replace my MBP for a new one (the latest one!!) FOC. HEH.

Transferring all my data and programs with the built in user migration tool. Macs own.

No, it didn't take 11 hours. Lol. About 2 hours later..

Tadah! Haha. Nearly 1:1! Fresh out of the box! Didn't even have to do anything, no reinstalling of programs or any nonsense. Everything there. Down side is that I only have 50GB free out of 200 now.. Oh well. It will end up like that sooner or later anyway.

Looks like even I too, fall prey to guilty material pleasures sometimes..

Heh.

And the best part about these guilty material pleasures, is that you don't even feel guilty at all. >=D

Testing RSS

Damn shit my safari's RSS counters are dead.

KEN LEE!

fucked

Sometimes, I wonder, what I am doing in NUS, why am I studying this stupid course. Then I wonder, what else can I do? Nothing. If I quit school and find a job now, the employer will ask me why I dropped out of school. If I stay in school, I risk doing bad enough to be kicked out. If I study something else, what the hell else can I study? I don't want to come up with excuses, or to blame anyone. Cos everything has already happened and now is the present. I just feel very very fucked about school right now.

The Angel and The Devil

O >:D

p.s. Many thanks to Fi. If not for you, I would have never been able to get this. I am so grateful.

omfg. a song made from just win98 and winxp sounds. shit.

WTF

A band that uses a DS and 2 iPhones as instruments. WTF WTF WTF. It's so damn freaking cool!!!

They are called iBand btw.

4

Old school or what??

Hehe

Argh I just realised I haven't blogged about vday!! I'm so owned :( Anyway. Vday was damn fun! :D I got her flowers, and showed her the movie I made with pics from the day we met.. She was so happy she almost cried :P Luckily I included funny stuff here and there so she wouldn't start bawling :P And guess what she got me?? ORANGE BOX!! Hahaha! Damn funny la. You would expect like maybe a bear, or chocs, but no she got me a game. HOHO. She sure knows me well :D Anyway the xbox is fully functional with many games, we had fun over the weekend playing like almost everything under the sun. Now all I need is more controllers and people to play!

In other news, I was zhnging my adium yesterday.

Sleek or what? :D

:D

Happy 6 months cum (no pun intended) valentine's day bee!! Got surprise for you later hur hur..

Party Machine Up and Running!

Haven't thoroughly tested everything yet, but so far all the multiplayer games work. Ninja Gaiden refuses to work, and so does GTA: San Andreas (downloading a fix, hope it solves it, couldn't try)

Fun fun fun!

Never take a blind date to a silent film.

Thanks bee bee for the xmas and birthday prezzies :)

Thank you so much.. Love you bee bee *muacks*

My guitar has not looked so clean for a long time..

Removed all the strings, cleaned the body, the fretboard (LOTS OF SHIT!) the neck, headstock, changed the strings... Looks great, feels great and sounds great now! :D

Back by popular demand, the parody of Dragonfarce!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwPAewBFVQs

Vids of mad guitarists

John 5 who used to play for marilyn manson. Surprisingly good. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc9O4yk7SKc

Chris Broderick. Another madman. Here he plays mozart by tapping

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xohcxxt6oHo

Then he does some slap jazz slapping

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsYfLjsHBDE

He can shred too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4bLerJddlM

This is proof that how some people CAN play the guitar too fast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adY-zuus5YQ

And how pinkies can be too long

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34ttVVeGb3w

And finally why I think Dragonforce plain sucks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1uT8MUr7_4

Been playing around with garageband..

All fi's fault. Now I'm addicted too. The amp sim is amazing, you can choose the sequence of the amp, eq, how many amps you want.. bla bla.. I went to research online on Eddie Van Halen's tone, stumbled on this site http://www.amptone.com/eddievanhalenrig.htm and I followed it. Since I could insert as many EQs as I wanted I could somehow follow it to a certain degree. Guess how it turned out. I won't say, hear for yourself!

Panama

http://sanxp.ath.cx:81/panama-garage.mp3

When I Look Into Your Eyes' solo

http://sanxp.ath.cx:81/looksolo-garage.mp3

A faster solo (anyhow)

http://sanxp.ath.cx:81/solotest-garage.mp3

A project I've been dreaming of for some time..

Has finally been fulfilled. :D Smarvo with a return jack. Now I can jack in my pedals the way I do during jamming, bypassing the EQ on the amp. And the best part is, I did it myself. :D Took the useless footswitch jack and re-wired it to the volume knob (I'm sparing a LOT of details) and it works! I also wired it so that it will always be in clean mode, the way I use it. The boost mode sounds horrible anyway..

Pics!

Sound clip here: http://sanxp.ath.cx:81/panama-smarvo.mp3

Linux on mac? Unpossible!

I got it done with Parallels and Ubuntu. :D And it's pretty damn fast. Faster than windows running on Parallels.

Oh by the way I loaded Ubuntu with mac fonts so it will look more mac-like. The original fonts looked like ass.  Lol.

Tipard/Leoger

Er yea. One more of my antics of trying to make Leopard look more like tiger. And ending up making my Leopard look like some frankenfreak thingy. Oh well it's cute ^^

Tag if you wanna know how!

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

A friend who helps in times of trouble is a true friend. How true this is. I am thankful for having not one, but two. My baby and fi, the only two who helped me out for my up and coming court case. Baby offered her PSP up for sale to help out, and is also taking out a significant portion out of her paycheck for me. Fi offered the same, and he cabbed all the way down to meet me even though he was in the middle of his work. Both of you are the truest, and bestest of friends anyone could ever wish for, and for that I am eternally grateful.

I shall not mention the particular individual who immediately turned me down even before I asked him for help. I was not even intending to ask him, afraid of the repercussions. Such people I need little of in my life.

It's times of trouble that one finds his true friends. Not that I doubted any of them, but it was through this that strengthened my belief on who my true friends are. I learnt a lot too from this experience, through all the thinking I've done collectively for the past 2 months. I realised all the wrong doings I have been doing, and why. It's time to get back on the ground and live a humble life.

I hope the verdict tomorrow will be alright.

Leopard Tricks!

New additions to my ever changing mac! Notice anything different? The menu bar on top is not translucent anymore! Yay! Old tigger goooodnesssss... Did it with 2 programs. And I'll guide you through how.

First, I made it white. It used to be difficult, having to go into terminal and edit system files yourself.. But the great guys at eternal storms software made a really nice software that does everything for you, free of charge! Here it is: http://www.eternalstorms.at/utilities/opaquemenubar/index.html

Run it, change opacity to 1, restart. You're done.

After this, you're done, with a really really white bar. Like.. bleached. That's kinda ew and bright, not like the Tiger one with a gradient, so we have another app to help you out. You can adjust the gradient, the colour, mouse over opacity, yadda.. but I adjusted a global setting to look as tiger as I could, as seen above. Nice and yummy. I like. Here is the second app you need: http://www.manytricks.com/menubartint/

Run this one, fiddle around, and you're done. For reference, I used black for all the base colours, and set 0% opacity for top, 5% opacity for middle, and 15% opacity for bottom. Both opacity sliders for mouse over and away are all the way to the left. Once you're done, you can hide/close the settings window, and it will be tucked away nicely without knowing it's there. Oh and you need to add it in your login items for it to take effect, just tick the hide button after adding it so you won't see it or even know that it's there.

UPDATE: You can just use opaque menu bar to set the opacity to 0.62 to get the bar on older macs running leopard. It doesn't look exactly like tiger but at least it looks official, and it's less troublesome. Also with menu bar tint the white words when you click any menu item turns out grayish. And the blue doesn't quite match the rest of the menus. So well, you decide.

So there. Hope it helped. If you wanna know how I got the song title up there, I use a program called QuickTunes, and I have a software called GimmeSomeTune (also from eternal storms software) that grabs and updates the lyrics for all the song that is playing, and you can set a shortcut key to display the lyrics anywhere. No more breaking your flow to find lyrics, just control-command-L (that's how I set mine) to show the lyrics in a nice, translucent black, resizable window. Lookee here:

It comes with a menu icon, but you can hide it, but remember to set a global shortcut to call the settings page up before you do! If not you can't see it again unless you delete the preference file, which is.. really tedious. I set mine to control-command-comma, as command-comma is the normal preference shortcut key for the mac. Easy to remember.

I also have a QuickLook plugin that displays the contents of a folder, rather than a boring icon. Check this out:

You can get this from http://homepage.mac.com/xdd/software/folder/. Also, I have one that QuickLooks zip files, rar files, any archive file as well! You can get that one here http://macitbetter.com/BetterZipQL-1.0

Also, have you ever surfed the net, or talked to your friend, and not know what a word meant? Did you have to go to dictionary.com or worse, flip a real one? Well in leopard it's built right in, you just select the word and press control-command-d. Yes it's that simple. Look here:

Works anywhere with selectable text. For any other word, just call spotlight (command-space) and type it in! Spotlight is just too flexible to document here.. Basically you can run programs, choose songs, search the dictionary, do simple math, all in spotlight!

"But what about my spanking new PC with Vista?" you might ask. Well, too bad. Get a mac. :)

10 reasons why you should get a DS instead of a PSP

If you are considering between a DS and a PSP, think no more. Get a DS, and below are the 10 reasons why. I've owned a PSP prior to the DS, so I can safely say that my comments are unbiased and the true reflection of what I feel about the two different consoles.

1. The games are smaller so you can put more on a piece of memory than a PSP, a PSP with a 4GB memory stick can hold the most 5-6 games, each weighing in at 200MB to 1.5GB, while a DS more than 30 games with a 2GB SD card, where the smallest game is 8MB and the largest at 128MB. How many times on the bus were you bored with your PSP game, and you wanna play some other game, only to realise you didn't bring it along? With a large selection, you'll never get bored. Also, with the amount you can put on the DS, you don't have to choose what game to bring along with you, you just bring all of them along!
2. With smaller games, a good side effect is that the games will load faster. MUCH faster. You spend less time waiting and more time playing.
3. The games are simpler, making it much easier to play on the go than with the PSP. I found myself playing my PSP only at home, making it practically useless as a portable console.
4. The games are easier to save, same as point 4. You don't want to be waiting for the bloody game to load to the main menu, then load the save menu, just to save when you've already reached your destination!
5. The games are so easy to play even your girlfriend or her baby cousin would want to play! Fun for everyone, isn't that what games should be like?
6. There are many interesting and unique games on the DS that you can never find on the PSP. How many games on the PSP are horribly stripped down versions of their bigger console brothers on the PS2 and PS3?
7. A DS bundle is cheaper than a PSP bundle.
8. The DS is much smaller and lighter, and thus less strenuous to play on the go. I've played the PSP on the bus till my wrists and neck were sore. I can play my DS from home to Woodlands and still not want to put it down. Also, while being smaller, it's easier to bring around! The PSP was just too troublesome.. Not to mention being afraid of dropping it..
9. The DS is more hardy than the PSP, with a suitable hard case. The hard case does not impede the usage of my DS, unlike the unwieldy Logitech PlayGear for the PSP. This means you can take it out to play anytime you like while on the go without fear of dropping, scratching or nicking your DS. I was so afraid to drop my PSP, with a few near misses.
10. It's easier to 'mod' the DS than the PSP. The amount of knowledge needed to mod the PSP just to play games off the memory stick is atrocious! You just buy an R4 for the DS. It's only like, $50? A brand new DS + R4 is still cheaper than a brand new PSP. And you can slap in a memory card into a DS and begin playing, but you still need to mod the PSP!

Yeah, you can say the PSP has better graphics, looks cooler, and can play PlayStation games, but the games just suck for playing on the go. Most games feel as though they were supposed to be enjoyed at home and not outside, especially with the snazzy graphics. Even with the snazzy graphics, they are nowhere near the quality of a PS3 or even the PS2, so there's no point in playing them at home anyway! You might as well get a proper console. That being said, I'd rather get a Wii. So I can play games together with my friends, rather than them watching me play Final Fantasy Whatever.

Get a DS. You won't regret it.

Hmm

In the light of the recent trend of posting song lyrics, I shall do so as well.. (actually not really, it's just fi lol)

Here's Third Eye Blind's Jumper, from the era of secondary school. Singing about stepping back from the edge and putting the past away. Meaningful stuff.

I wish you would step back from that ledge, my friend 

You could cut ties with all the lies 

That you've been living in 

And if you do not want to see me again 

I would understand 

I would understand 

The angry boy, a bit too insane 

Icing over a secret pain 

You know you don't belong 

You're the first to fight 

You're way too loud 

You're the flash of light 

On a burial shroud 

I know something's wrong 

Well everyone I know has got a reason 

To say 

Put the past away 

I wish you would step back from that ledge, my friend 

You could cut ties with all the lies 

That you've been living in 

And if you do not want to see me again 

I would understand 

I would understand 

Well, he's on the table 

And he's gone to code 

And I do not think anyone knows 

What they are doing here 

And your friends have left 

You've been dismissed 

I never thought it would come to this 

And I 

I want you to know 

Everyone's got to face down the demons 

Maybe today 

We can put the past away 

I wish you would step back from that ledge, my friend 

You could cut ties with all the lies 

That you've been living in 

And if you do not want to see me again 

I would understand 

I would understand 

I would understand 

Can you put the past away 

I wish you would step back from that ledge, my friend 

I would understand... 

Anyway life hasn't been really swell for me recently, credit card debt, court case for speeding coming next week, just finished my exams and probably going to fail 2 modules.. Thankfully baby's always been there for me.. Gonna clear all the shit and start 2008 afresh. I will be a better, more responsible person. I guess that's the true meaning of maturing and growing up, and not speeding like a mad dog, spending money like water and fooling around with girls, like a certain individual might like to believe. I'm going to wake up and accept the fact that I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth and live a normal, honest and happy life. One does not need to endanger lives and waste petrol with speeding or spend lavishly to enjoy life. I have my baby, my awesome group of friends, my band and my music. All these too important to me to lose with recklessness.

Thru the shitty 2007, I hope I've become a better person. May 2008 be a better year.

All I've ever wanted for a girl, was someone to talk to, someone to laugh with (or at), someone to cuddle up to, someone I can take care of, someone that can take care of me, someone I can take responsibility for, someone to live with, someone to be with, someone to hang out with for the whole day, someone to love..

And I've found her. And I'm glad. I love you bee :)

Leetifying Leopard

If you've been reading my blog, you would probably know I have 2 macs, and both running OS X Leopard. If you don't, now you do.

What's new in Leopard is something called Screen Sharing. Basically what that means is that you can control a mac, from any mac, over the network. Cool huh. You might have seen many repetitive desktop pictures on my blog over this period (rest assured they were of different macs on different versions of OS X) but you haven't seen anything as confusing as this yet:

Wha? 2 docks? No, the mac in the window is my iMac, while the actual one is my MacBook. I'm downstairs and I would like to make my iMac do stuff while I'm working. I won't have to run up and down to check on what's going on, I can do everything from here. Is that cool or what?

Anyway. Maybe that was not so confusing considering you probably are on micro$haft winblows, cos when I look at that pic I see 3 docks (including the one here). So. To add on to the confusion I decided to be retarded:

:D

snowy the new kitty..

DSC01169.JPG, originally uploaded by sanXp.

She's sleeping soundly.. Has been a long day.

Mac OS X

Before (Tiger)

After (Leopard)

Aw yeah. Leopard is now on the big one.

24" Leopard goodness. I couldn't help myself. Sorry tigger..

*click*

LOL@APPLE

Windows servers are represented on Leopard as crappy 15" CRTs with a BSOD. LOL!!

hehehe

Leopard is up!

Screw the non-believers, I got leopard running on my MacBook Pro. Heh. Check it out:

Is Leopard really worth it over Tiger?

Been reading up on it prior to making the leap to Leopard, and there were many whose computer crashed and burned after installing it. Apparently it had something to do with certain incompatible apps loading on startup, and they had their machines stuck on the blue startup screen with the mouse pointer for.. a good few hours. Nothing they do can get the machine out of that state and even better, when running the installation DVD again, the drive could not be installed to! They apparently had to format and do a clean install of leopard, losing all their files. I'm not too keen on that, especially on my iMac where I have a lot of very precious data. With no 500gb hard drive to backup to, I can only risk my MacBook Pro, which doesn't have a lot of data, but which I can throw into my iMac for safe keeping.

Another thing is the look of leopard, I don't really fancy the way it looks. Yeah, stacks is cool, spaces will be useful, cover flow everywhere, but the overall look of Leopard is.. ew. The translucent menu bar, no more rounded corners, super FUGLY folder icons, ugly shade of blue on the selected menu items.. oh and yes.. FRONT ROW LOOKS LIKE ASS. I believe it's the exact carbon copy of the Apple TV interface, which honestly isn't very nice. The 3D effect of zooming in and out of front row is GONE, and it just fades in and out. Really sad.

So I've decided to go with Leopard only on my MBP, as I believe spaces will be productive for me, but will stick with Tiger with my iMac. Tiger just looks better, and I don't need spaces here with a 24" screen. I don't code on my iMac anyway. I would wanna come home to a pretty interface after a hard day of school or what not.

Cool app of the week!

Introducing an app I've been looking for the past few days: an app that can display the song my iTunes is playing on my menu bar, the nifty nice neatish area on the top right of all macs. It's really simple, but it's not easy to find a free one that looks good (the other I tried needed me to pay and had really crappy anti-aliasing; the words were jagged!) and I stumbled upon this today: QuickTunes. It's completely free under GPL and it does a little more than just display the song title on the menu. Check the shots out:





Pretty much explains what it can do. Not like I really need them, but it's cool to have. It has a floating window which I won't show here because I already have sizzling keys to do that for me.

More info here: http://dbachrach.com/opensoft/index.php?page=QuickTunes

for fi

http://sanxp.ath.cx:81/firiff-triac.mp3 this is your riff with my triac
http://sanxp.ath.cx:81/firiff-mix2.mp3 this is your riff mixed in with the triac
http://sanxp.ath.cx:81/firiff-mix.mp3 this is the same as mix2 but it has my normal setup mixed in as well, sounds like shit tho, dunno why

Hmm I removed the 'What My Friends are Saying' section..

Kinda takes up too much space and I don't think anyone is interested in reading them.. If you want it back just holler on my cbox and I will add it back!

I HATE CHINANESE!!!!

The feeling of being a guitar geek is coming back..

Finally the feel is back.. I wanna do stuff to my guitar setup once again. I'm planning on having my solo boost switch on my guitar, followed by a looper that switches 2 of my 3 overdrive pedals in and out so I can switch between clean and distortion easily, and cutting the body to have more pull up on my floyd. All these hopefully done by next june, wish me luck..

Thanks to all that came!!

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See all the photos here:
Day 2: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanxp/tags/day2/
Day 1: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanxp/tags/day1/

Heh

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Check the rest out at http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanxp/tags/day2/ !

DAY 2!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanxp/tags/day2/

:D

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WE CAN FLY!

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GIG PHOTOS UP

I too shag to type anything else

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanxp/tags/gig/